System and method for electronic ticket purchasing and redemption
OwnerWilliam Christopher Russellinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for purchasing, issuing and redeeming electronic tickets using portable information device (“PID”) technology. Utilizing the accessibility, convenience, and fraud protection features of PIDs, embodiments of the present invention store identification information on a user's PID, and then, utilizing a ticket server and an authentication device, provide mechanisms to access the PID in order to authenticate and/or validate the user.
Claims18
A method for granting access to a PID holder, comprising:
- receiving an authenticated request from a PID;
- transmitting the authenticated request to a service center;
- receiving from the service center a redemption message responsive to the authenticated request;
- and
- granting access to the PID holder based on the received redemption message.
A method for redeeming a previously purchased ticket, comprising:
- communicating an event ticket request to a PID;
- receiving from the PID an authenticated event ticket request responsive to the event ticket request;
- transmitting the authenticated event ticket request to a ticket validation center;
- receiving from the ticket validation center a ticket redemption responsive to the authenticated event ticket request;
- and
- validating the ticket redemption.
A product redemption system, comprising:
- a portable information device with a storage means for storing consumer account information and consumer authentication data, said consumer authentication data including a public cryptographic key and a private cryptographic key;
- a sales merchant;
- a purchase service center;
- a purchase authenticator;
- means for posting to the purchase service center a request to sell a product;
- means for offering said product for advance purchase;
- means for reserving an advance purchase of said product;
- means for initiating a product redemption for said product in conjunction with said portable information device;
- means for uniquely identifying said portable information device using public key cryptography;
- and
- means for receiving said product based on said product redemption.
A method for redeeming a previous ticket purchase, comprising:
- receiving an authenticated ticket request containing an event identifier, an event public key, an event digital signature, a PID public key and a PID digital signature;
- validating the event public key;
- validating the event digital signature;
- validating the PID public key;
- validating the PID digital signature;
- retrieving a previously-purchased ticket associated with the event identifier, said previously-purchased ticket corresponding to an account number associated with the PID public key;
- and
- transmitting a ticket redemption responsive to the authenticated ticket request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.